Completing seven years of agony Relatives of enforced disappearances to hold mass procession in Kilinochchi today

By Kurulu Koojana Kariyakarawana   

In completion of seven years of truth-seeking agony to  learn the whereabouts of their missing kith and kin during the war, the  family members of the enforced disappearances are to stage a mass  procession in Kilinochchi this morning.   

Hundreds of members of the Association for Relatives of the  Enforced Disappearances (ARED) from the five branches of the Northern  and Eastern Provinces will rally around in Kilinochchi to mark their  grievances.   
A spokesperson from the ARED told the Daily Mirror the main  procession is scheduled to commence from Kandasamy Kovil in Kilinochchi  around 9.30 am and to proceed up to the special monument at Depot  Junction, within a stretch of four kilometres.   

Relatives, especially widowed mothers of the victims of the  enforced disappearances ARED from Jaffna, Mullaitivu, Mannar and  Vavuniya are also expected to flock to Kilinochchi for the seventh anniversary.   
Tamil political party leaders from all districts in the Northern Province have pledged support to the remembrance, which has been  carried out since its inception on February 20, 2017.   

Over 200,000 persons had reportedly gone missing during the later stages of the war in 2009, according to ARED sources.